Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.